Similar to my post about running Home Assistant on Fedora in Docker, this is about using podman instead and integrating the container as a service with systemd. One of the major advantages to me is the removal of Docker daemon and integration with the rest of the system including management of dependencies like regular services.

This assumes you’ve just installed Fedora server and have a local user with sudo privileges. Let’s also install some SELinux tools.

sudo dnf install -y /usr/sbin/semanage

Create non-root user

Let’s create a specific user to run the Home Assistant service.

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